"Homeland" showrunner Alex Gansa has hinted that the next installment of the successful spy thriller series will include references to "the deep state."
“There was a strange sort of new alliance that was taking place between the intelligence community and the fourth estate, which we found interesting,” Gansa told the Hill after his team of writers and producers took their annual weeklong research field trip to Washington, D.C., two months after President Trump's inauguration in 2017.
“I doubt he’d learn one thing," Gansa continued, when asked whether Trump would find the award-winning Showtime program instructive.
"I think he might be amused just to watch an administration convinced that there was something called the ‘deep state’ aligned against [the show's fictional President Elizabeth Keane]. Clearly that’s a fear that the Trump administration feels every day,” he added.
"The deep state" is a right-wing conspiracy that alleges there is a shadow government of unelected bureaucrats seeking to undermine Trump's legislative agenda.
While Gansa said "Homeland" won't directly comment on the state of U.S. politics to avoid saturating fans with political content, it will aim to be relevant to an America with a Trump White House.
“I was watching the news last night and flicking between MSNBC, Fox, and CNN, and I thought to myself that President Trump never won an Emmy for ‘The Apprentice,’ but he should be winning an Emmy now,” Gansa said. “It is riveting television now.”
The seventh season of "Homeland" premieres Sunday.
